{"product_id":"glico-pocky-tsubutsubu-ichigo","title":"Glico Strawberry Pocky Tsubutsubu Ichigo — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrawberry cream with freeze-dried fruit through it, coated twice onto a wholemeal \u003cstrong\u003ecocoa\u003c\/strong\u003e biscuit stick. What is underneath is chocolatey and slightly bitter, and the fruit reads sharp rather than sweet against it. It is the only strawberry Pocky Glico builds this way. Buy it if you want a strawberry snack that tastes tart; if you are after the soft pink sweetness of the supermarket strawberry Pocky, this is not that, and the difference is not subtle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads つぶつぶいちごポッキー: \u003cem\u003etsoo-boo-tsoo-boo ee-chee-go\u003c\/em\u003e, roughly \"bitty strawberry\", after the pieces of fruit in the cream. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box, meaning the thin baked wheat stick rather than the twisted salty bar-snack kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe strawberry is real, and that is the question people actually ask.\u003c\/strong\u003e It tastes like fruit rather than flavouring: there is a genuine tartness to it, and pieces you can feel against your teeth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is also added colour, something to make it tart (an acidulant) and flavouring in the list\u003c\/strong\u003e, and both things are true at once. The colour is beetroot-derived rather than a synthetic dye. Where anyone does read it as artificial, it is the \u003cem\u003esmell\u003c\/em\u003e they mean rather than the taste: the aroma is the sweet-shop part of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is cocoa, not plain, and among the strawberry Pocky, this box is the only place Glico does that.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a bitter base under a sweet cream, and the contrast is what makes it work, though the cocoa is subtle enough to miss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not the box Coles sells.\u003c\/strong\u003e The strawberry Pocky Coles sells is made in Thailand, Coles states that on its own page, and Glico's export listing for it describes a plain wheat stick with strawberry powder and artificial flavour, no fruit pieces. Same brand, same pink, different product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not sweeter than ordinary Pocky.\u003c\/strong\u003e Whatever the pink box suggests, the cream is the sweet part and the biscuit under it is not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico says keep it under 28°C, and the cream is on the outside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a permanent line in Japan rather than a winter special, so it is not going anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296514158818,"sku":"SH-SNK-0042","price":5.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-tsubutsubu-ichigo-pink-box.webp?v=1788500388","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-pocky-tsubutsubu-ichigo","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}